Art: In Seattle

When the Allied soldiers broke into Peking's Forbidden City in 1900, they
found in that square mile of yellow-tiled palaces the greatest assemblage of
treasure in the modern world, collected for over 250 years by the Manchu
Emperors. Ever since the fall of the Empire in 1911 bits of that treasure have been
dribbling away, though not quite as fast as certain dealers would like
collectors to believe. Six months ago when the remnant was moved from
Peiping to Shanghai in fear of Japanese invasion, it occupied over
4.000 packing cases, was valued...